It was okay but The Unquiet Dead is still the best episode so far. I wasn't sure about this one until the last few minutes, it had a good cliffhanger but all of that farting!! OH GOD!!
I know what you mean I found the farting puerile and it spoilt it a bit really. The scene with Matt Baker from Blue Peter making a space-ship shaped cake was inspired though!
Every few months, something comes along which justifies the licence fee for me. And Doctor Who is it since The Power Of Nightmares last October.
Love the tongue-in-cheek aspect of it all.
Totally agree JB - it's really good television and something that the BBC does best...shame it doesn't do it more often.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are excellent as Doctor Who and his "plus one". David Tennant will be good as the Doctor Who - but also disappointed at Christopher not staying on...I'm really enjoying his take at the Doctor. Certainly coming close to Tom Baker in my opinion - but then again Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy were pretty poo anyway.
Also has universal appeal - most of my friends I have spoken to are watching it religiously...even those I wouldn't expect - and a good sign of a show?...You can download it on the net. Must be good.
It was okay but The Unquiet Dead is still the best episode so far. I wasn't sure about this one until the last few minutes, it had a good cliffhanger but all of that farting!! OH GOD!!
I know what you mean I found the farting puerile and it spoilt it a bit really. The scene with Matt Baker from Blue Peter making a space-ship shaped cake was inspired though!
I was disappointed with the episode to be honest- it just didn't have the 'grab' of last week. Some of the writing crossed the line between charmingly funny and cheesy, and the 'pig plot' just didn't work for me.
Having seen the last 2 episodes that easily could have been worked in as 2-parters, I feel at the end of next week I may just think this should have worked as a 1 parter.
Having said all this, it is still great to have Doctor Who back where it belongs, and it's not as if I won't be watching next Saturday! And then the week after it's "Dalek", where frankly Great Britain will be watching.
It was alright I thought, a bit too silly in some places, but I suppose you have to have that.
One thing that stood out to me was the Slitheen aliens; it didn't look right because they used two methods of imagining them, the first is a good old standard costume suit, and the other, when pulling off the fake human suits, they were done using CGI. You could really tell the difference, and it just did not blend from one to the other.
I prefer the show set in the modern day, rather then the future. It makes it much more accessable and less geeky Sci-fi.
But then again it ages it very quickly. The UNIT stories from the 70s are now very aged. Ok the futuristic stories have aged too, but there were no politics and modern-day slang used, so it ages a little less.
In 10 years time, they'll think "god dose actors talk well posh 10 yrs go innit!!"
Ant and Dec triumph over Doctor Who from Media Guardian:
'Ant and Dec got their revenge on Doctor Who on Saturday night, nosing ahead in the ratings for the first time in four weeks.
The duo, who have suffered since the BBC brought back one of its most famous Saturday teatime figures last month, finally got their revenge after Doctor Who slipped to its lowest viewing figures to date.
The final episode of the current series of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway drew an average of 7.1 million viewers, peaking at 7.8 million when Ant McPartlin was forced to do a Bushtucker Trial and ended up covered in insects.
BBC1's latest incarnation of the time lord had its lowest audience yet, down 3 million on its stellar launch figures of 10 million and over a million down on last week's third episode, when in bagged 8.3 million, a 37% share.
Nonetheless, the BBC's head of drama commissioning Jane Tranter will hardly be ruing her decision to commission a second and third series.
With a 34% share and 7 million viewers Doctor Who was easily BBC1's best non-soap performer of the night, drawing 2.7 million more than the first part of Graham Norton's Strictly Dance Fever which preceded it.'
Having watched it three times now I loved this episode. My favourite part was when Rose told the doctor he was so gay which made me spit out my tea due to the fabness of the line.
